Steve Trimble

Defense Editor

Washington, DC

Summary

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington.

Born in a U.S. Air Force family, he grew up on military bases around the world and came to Washington in 1997 to work for Army Times Publishing Co. as a journalist. Steve helped launch the Military.com portal in 2000, then joined the editorial team for Aviation Week’s web site in 2001. He reported on the Pentagon for Aerospace Daily in 2002 and 2003.

From September 2003 to September 2018, Steve covered defense and aviation issues and managed staff as the U.S. bureau chief for Jane’s Defence Weekly and later FlightGlobal. He has covered aviation stories on six continents and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Aerospace Media Awards honor for Best In-Depth Feature on the effort to revive Russia’s commercial aviation industry.

 

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Articles

By Steve Trimble
A short-term debate over replacing the Minuteman III has raised fundamental questions about the land-based leg of the nuclear triad.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A contractor-operated aircraft crashed at about 2:30 p.m. May 24, on the southern edge of Nellis AFB, Nevada, the U.S. Air Force says. "The aircraft
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The specter of war with China across the vast Pacific Ocean has provoked the U.S. military to re-imagine the command-and-control mission, spend
Aircraft & Propulsion